That's a free access link, in case you were an "Eat, Pray, Love" fan and had an impression of Elizabeth Gilbert as a nice lady and need to see if it's crushed. Me, I never picked up that book, was never vulnerable to the possibility that the author was a "nice lady" and wouldn't have cared. I just assumed she was a lady who was into herself for reasons that had nothing to do with me. Is praying something to be wedged in between gorging and fucking? I don't know, but I didn't need to know. I have no Elizabeth Gilbert-related illusions to be dispelled and I'm not temptable into the question whether she's got a dark side. I'm just going to guess that the "murder" she was "crafting" was assisting in the suicide of a cancer patient.
September 8, 2025
"I’m the nice lady who wrote 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I’m out in the park with fentanyl and morphine and sleeping pills trying to craft a murder."
From "Elizabeth Gilbert Gets Dark/A new memoir finds the self-help icon locked in a destructive romantic relationship with her best friend, who relapsed while fighting terminal cancer" (NYT)(free access link).
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I picked up that book (eat pray love) and read a few pages, perhaps the first chapter. It was SOOOOOOO contrived.
Not authentic! (lol)
but really - it wasn't.
I've read sappy who-dun-it books by author Mary Higgins Clark - (airplane reads) with better feelz.
"Is praying something to be wedged in between gorging and fucking? I don't know, but I didn't need to know."
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OOOOOHH! The burn! THE BURN!!
I’m gonna say Ann blogged about something she found interesting about someone she doesn’t find interesting…
I would’ve thought she liked Jane Smiley. Perhaps too close to home…
The publishing industry, if it had a soul or a butt, should have its soul damned and its butt kicked. Elizabeth Gilbert, as a construct of the publishing industry, is a make believe character. Her book would only have value if she were actually the person presented to the public.
"I'm just going to guess that the "murder" she was "crafting" was assisting in the suicide of a cancer patient." No, far darker than that.
She had become abusive and paranoid, picking invisible bugs off her skin, ranting about police surveillance, lashing out at Gilbert over imaginary failings, and refusing to let Gilbert sleep or outsource care to a home aide. To cope with the stress, Gilbert was self-medicating with booze, Xanax, Ambien, psilocybin and MDMA.
They sound like very nice ladies, indeed.
If you plot to murder someone who has pancreatic and liver cancer and who stays up all night ingesting whiskey, morphine, Vicodin, marijuana, fentanyl and thousands of dollars worth of cocaine and you fail then you should look for a different avocation.
Rasputin was easier to kill.
Planned Patienthood (PP) has diverse precedents.
"Is praying something to be wedged in between gorging and fucking?"
If it didn't come so long after the book's publication, I'd say that's one of the best burns of a literary work I've ever heard. That's up with the Family Guy burn of Sex and the City as being about "three hookers and their Mom". Or even the South Park version of the book: "Eat, Pray, Queef".
Absolutely Fabulous.
Eat, Pray, Love
Live, Laugh, Love
Distinctions not cost effective
Put Julia Roberts into the movie. It would complete her career arc: from Hollywood Boulevard whore, to Eat, Pray, Love, to dragging herself through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
“ Is praying something to be wedged in between gorging and fucking?”
I just had to re-post that so I could look at it and admire it a bit longer.
There was never any excuse for "Eat, Pray, Love" (2010) Julia Roberts
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